Counteracting implicit conflicts by electrical inhibition of the prefrontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1737-1748

  Schroeder, Philipp Alexander ^a   Pfister, Roland ^b   Kunde, Wilfried ^b   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^a,c   Plewnia, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

BEHAVIORAL PERFORMANCE; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR; MAGNITUDE INFORMATION; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; NEUROCOGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL PROCESSING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATIONS;

BRAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84989817085     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01001     Document Type: Article

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